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How to fix gradle in Intellij IDEA 0

Android

How to fix gradle in Intellij IDEA

When starting a project in Intellij IDEA if you see an error around the lines of

Gradle sync failed: The newly created daemon process has a different context than expected.
 It won't be possible to reconnect to this daemon. Context mismatch: 
 Java home is different.
 Wanted: DefaultDaemonContext[uid=null,javaHome=C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3.2\jre,daemonRegistryDir=C:\Users\Ronald\.gradle\daemon,pid=7044,idleTimeout=null,daemonOpts=-Xmx1536m,-Dfile.encoding=windows-1252,-Duser.country=US,-Duser.language=en,-Duser.variant]
 Actual: DefaultDaemonContext[uid=7819e5ac-98ac-4dd2-8891-cacf4e56f662,javaHome=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_112,daemonRegistryDir=C:\Users\Ronald\.gradle\daemon,pid=4720,idleTimeout=60000,daemonOpts=-Xmx1536m,-Dfile.encoding=windows-1252,-Duser.country=US,-Duser.language=en,-Duser.variant]
 Consult IDE log for more details (Help | Show Log)

The solution would be to explicitly tell grade where your java directory is. You can do this in two places

  1. Open up %USERPROFILE%\.gradle\  and create the file gradle.properties
  2. In your android project create or edit the gradle.properties file

Inside that file put the location of your java path using forwardslashes instead of backslashes

org.gradle.java.home=Your/path/here/with/forwardslashes

In my case it looks like:

org.gradle.java.home=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_112
Virtualization: Should I assign CPU’s or Cores 0

Virtualization

Virtualization: Should I assign CPU’s or Cores

TL:DR Cores Cores Cores (but no more than pCPU count)

When creating a new virtual machine in VMware ESXi or VMware Workstation, it asks you how may processor cores you wish to set and gives you the option to set both ‘Number of processors‘ and ‘Number of cores per processor‘.

Most places online (looking at you Stack Overflow) said that only ‘Total processor cores‘ matters. I was curious as to how true that was and decided to run some tests myself.

The results are as follows

CPU’s Cores Single-Core Score Multi-Core Score % Increase
1 1  3159  2976  base
1 2  3161  4758  ↑60%
1 4  3055  5068  ↑70%
2 1  2991  4820  ↑62%
4 1  2960  4931  ↑65%
2 2  2913  5060  ↑70%

The results here were pretty astonishing, as soon as we increase the CPU count we actually lost single-core performance and gained a slightly higher multi-core score.

This may be because of the way VMware handle cores vs CPU’s. It could also be because of how the guest operating system handles multiple processors. Regardless, seeing as single-thread performance is more important in most applications, I’d stick with adding cores and not processors for the time being.

How many cores to assign to vmware virtual machines 0

Virtualization

How many cores to assign to vmware virtual machines

TL:DR Even with Hyperthreading enabled, do not exceed the amount of PHYSICAL cores your machine has. 

The General rule for assigning CPU’s is to keep your virtual cpu count at or lower than your physical cpu count. (VMware blog) .

I was curious as to why this was, seeing as generally one can get anywhere between a 10-30% increase in performance with hyperthreading.

To see how the performance scaled with each additional core, I decided to test it out on my laptop (1CPU, 2 Cores, 4ht cores). I spun up a new CentOS 7 machine and ran geekbench4 on each core configuration. The results were as follows

CPU’s Cores Single-Core Score Multi-Core Score % Increase
1 1  3159  2976  n/a
1 2  3161  4758  ↑60%
1 3  3109  4851  ↑2%
1 4  3055  5068  ↑4%

From our table we can see that after we arrived at the physical CPU count, adding extra cores gave us very little in terms of a performance boost.

Best linux distro for daily use in 2017 1

Linux

Best linux distro for daily use in 2017

A new year has begun. Time to format my disks. New windows install and more importantly, new Linux install. With windows, the choice is easy. Windows 10. With Linux, it’s a bit more complicated….

Here were the candidates

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Here’s a little history about my relationship with Ubuntu. Ubuntu was my first distro and all was right with the world, I would never have left… that is.. until the fire nation att… until unity. It was a bit of a messy breakup, something about it just didn’t resonate with my soul. A year or two ago I tried it again but I remember seeing amazon search results integrated by default and was instantly disgusted. But time has passed, seasons have changed and I believe people learn from their mistakes..so I wanted to give it another shot. so I did… (more…)

How to speedup (stop lag) in Fedora 25 1

Linux

How to speedup (stop lag) in Fedora 25

With Fedora 25 (as you probably already know) X was replaced with Wayland as the default display server. Now while I applaud Fedora for taking that giant step forward. The fact remains that X11 just performs better.

With Wayland i’ve noticed various flickers where there shouldn’t be. As well as a general feeling of… lag or slowness.

Luckily for us it’s pretty easy to go back to X.

  1. Logout (not yet!! Read the rest of the tutorial first)
  2. Click on your profile
  3. Look for the settings icon and select Gnome on XOrg.

Voila! you should now see an immediate difference.